TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS

Here's the March reading news for

Tuesdays with Writers

7 pm every month, the first Tuesday

at the South Mill

48th & Prescott, Lincoln

February - SNOW DAY ...

March -- Lisa Roberts

Lisa Roberts writes, “In 2006, I was careening toward the age at which my mother had died. When I crashed into that barrier—and came out the other side, heart thumping, cheeks huffing—poems started to pulse in me. And pour out. Now I write to keep being amazed I’m alive.”

Born in Michigan, Lisa studied English at Princeton and The University of Virginia. She has taught literature and writing in Hong Kong, Charlottesville, Las Vegas, and, after 1993, Lincoln, Nebraska, where she lives today with her daughter and husband. Her work is forthcoming in The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets.

April -- Chaparral Poets writing group

Lincoln Chaparral Poets meets regularly at Eastmont Towers on the third Monday evening of the month except July and August. It was organized in the 1940’s as part of a national organization known as the Edna Neeley Chapter of The Midwest Federation of Chaparral Poets. The name was changed to Lincoln Chaparral Poets after contact eventually was lost with the parent organization. The publish Poetry Pages, an in-house newsletter featuring members’ new and in-process poetry which is critiqued at the meetings.

May -- Laura Wiseman and Lynn Samsel

Laura Madeline Wiseman is a doctoral candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches English. She is the author of the bookSprung, forthcoming from San Francisco Bay Press, and three chapbooks of poetry, including Ghost Girl (Pudding House, 2010).

June -- Marge Saiser & Barbara Schmitz

July -- Tuesdays With Writers 12th Birthday,

with Jen Davis-Korn

Jennifer was first set free to write whatever she wanted by her third grade teacher Mrs. Kruse. Ever since then, she's been lucky enough to land a string of great teachers, like Deborah McGinn, and mentors, like Rex Walton, to encourage and coax her writing whims into their present fiction state. She is fortunate to have earned the trust of the good people of Tuesdays With Writers where she has made a nice and comfortable writing home. Now she promises to bring you danger, excitement, and thrills with a sampling from her collection of chapters from a long work titled "Parks and Recreation."

read the article about Tuesdays with Writers online: http://www.lmagazinelincoln.com/articles/2010/08/23/general/doc4c4ee7eb89c61112299057.txt

TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS BRINGS WRITERS TO WRITERS

(from the Daily Nebraskan, February 2nd, 2005)
The scent of coffee filled the air and welcomed spectators to a poetry reading. The Mill’s south location at 4736 Prescott Ave. hosts a poetry reading for poets called Tuesdays with Writer’s the first Tuesday of every month.
“I went to a poetry reading in Boulder, (Colo.) and then one in Minnesota and later in New York,” said Deborah McGinn, teacher of creative writing at Lincoln High School and organizer of Tuesdays with Writer’s. “Poetry has a real performance quality to it,” she said. Tuesdays with Writer’s started six years ago this July and promotes the poetic talent of the Lincoln area. McGinn has had to move her project to several areas to find the right fit, but said she feels she has found a great place with the Mill’s southern location. A selected poet reads his or her poetry for about 40 minutes and then the microphone is open to the public. “There seems to be a few writers who get all the attention and I know there’s more talent in Lincoln,” McGinn said. “I like to be all inclusive. I believe in the young voice, they work just as hard.”
Although McGinn encourages younger generations to perform their poetry and express their talents, she also gives older writers the opportunity to have their voice heard. Tuesday’s performance served as a perfect example.

Edgar Clemens, a retired University of Nebraska-Lincoln animal science professor, performed his “cowboy” poetry to a full Mill crowd. “I started writing poetry after I went to a cowboy poetry reading in Valentine,” Clemens said. “I went to a poetry workshop at Gere Library and Rex Walton said he liked my stuff and asked if I’d be interested.” Walton is an avid supporter and some-time reader at Tuesdays with Writer’s. Clemens played a harmonica before reciting his poetry and wove his tales of boys getting into mischief and cowboys on the trail, taking his audience back to the Old West Nebraska once knew. His poetry represented Midwestern values, as his narrative remained straightforward and honest. The warmth and hometown feel of The Mill provided a perfect atmosphere for the event and complimented Clemens poems nicely. “I really like having it at The Mill,” said McGinn. “Its such a non-pretentious environment.”
Tuesdays with Writer’s will have an anniversary special in July and welcomes poets of any kind to come and share their creativity. “You have a chance to come here and be recognized,” said Walton.

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